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AFL-CIO Executive Council Renews Solidarity Charters Through 2008
Charters Called 'Critical' for Working Families' Victory in This Nov. Election
November 14, 2006
Washington - - The AFL-CIO Executive Council renewed the Solidarity Charter program today, allowing locals of the disaffiliated unions to continue to participate in local, state and regional AFL-CIO labor bodies. The Council extended the Solidarity Charter program through the end of 2008.
"We need to ensure that the labor movement stays unified at the state and local level by extending the Solidarity Charter program," said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney today to the Executive Council, the 46-member leadership body of the AFL-CIO.
The AFL-CIO has issued more than 2500 charters to more than 1300 local unions, who often affiliate at both the state and local level. The program was launched in August, 2005 and was set to expire at the end of this year.
"During this past year, maintaining unity at the grassroots level has enabled our local central bodies and state federations to remain strong voices for the union movement - - in our communities and in our state governments," reads the statement on Solidarity Charters released by the Executive Council today.
"The value of a united movement was seen clearly in the recent elections," continues the statement, ".local unions that would not have been able to participate in labor's mobilization instead were key partners in a stunning set of labor-led victories."
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